WP Eberhard Eggers

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Portrait of WP Eberhard Eggers (WPEE);
Photographer: Eckard Schrader , 1971

WP Eberhard Eggers , full name Wilhelm Paul Eberhard Eggers (born January 14, 1939 in Hanover ; † August 8, 2004 ibid), was a German graphic artist , painter , sculptor and freemason . From an artistic point of view , he was considered a representative of modern fantastic realism , whose works are mainly Manneristically shaped by their abundance of images .

Life

In 1998 the sculpture “Dicker Mann Eats Maus” was erected on Braunschweiger Platz in front of the entrance to the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in the Hanover district of Bult

Born in Hanover in the first year of World War II , Wilhelm Paul Eberhard Eggers grew up in Linden . After the Waldorf School, which was also banned by the National Socialists in Hanover, was then opened a second time on the Maschsee as the Free Maschsee Waldorf School , Eggers became one of their early students.

In addition to his subsequent training as an industrial clerk, Eggers took private art lessons from Fritz Junghans , Dieter Rudlof and Mac Zimmermann .

From 1959 Eggers worked as a freelance artist, joined the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in the same year and founded the Ricklingen art group . From 1960 to 1963 Eggers worked as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Hannover , in 1961 founded the art association and publishing house araban 13 , which was operated until 1964, and then in 1963 the Fischersträßner Preßchen publishing house , in which he produced various hand presses, books and manifestos , such as Der Mensch ist simply fabelhaft (1963), Theatrum Anatomysticum (1963), ll Calotto resscitato or Das neue arranged Zwergenkabinett (1964) and Egger's small ancestral chamber, a printed calendar for 1965 .

The female form of the "Guardians" in front of the Kröpcke -Passage

Also from 1963 the artist sent around 200 exhibitions in Europe , Japan , the United States of America and Russia .

From 1967 until the end of the 1980s, WP Eberhard Eggers stayed regularly in the USA. In 1970 Eggers stayed in Moscow , in 1972 in Poland . In 1971 Eggers was visiting professor at Stout State University in Wisconsin and Hawaii . He also traveled through the USA several times and gave a guest session at the University of South Dakota .

From 1972 WP Eberhard Eggers ran another studio in the Pyrenees , and in 1973 received scholarships from the Ford Foundation and the University of New Mexico .

1999: " Sphinx " at Fiedeler Platz in Döhren

In 1980 Eggers co-founded the Heitland Foundation together with the entrepreneur Volker Heitland, who works in Celle . In 1987, WP Eberhard Eggers was accepted into the Freemason Lodge Friedrich zum white horse .

He was married to Heike Eggers and the marriage had two daughters.

In Hanover, sculptures were set up as art in public space during the artist's lifetime :

Other works

Fragment of the "Windsbraut" produced in Kampen on the island of Sylt in 2003 , installed at WP-Eberhard-Eggers-Platz in Oberricklingen

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York owns two etchings, Eggers was twice involved in group exhibitions at MoMA, most recently Fantastic Prints (1997). A triptych can be found in the Logenhaus Heiligengeiststrasse in Hanover. The graphic work by WP Eberhard Eggers came into the possession of the city of Hanover posthumously in 2005 through a donation , "[...] more than 800 works from the period from 1961 to 2004." The artist also created lithographs , etchings and linocuts .

Awards and honors (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Pictures, sculptures and graphics by Eggers have been shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions, especially in Germany, the USA, Japan and Russia.

Tomb

WP Eberhard Egger's tomb can be found at the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover, department 27E , burial place number 233-234 .

literature

  • WP Eberhard Eggers, drawings from 1962–1972. Accompanying publication to the exhibition in the gallery of the Steintor-Verlag in Burgdorf / Hanover from August to October 1972. Steintor-Verlag Jüdes, Burgdorf, Hanover 1972.
  • Cultural Office of the State Capital Hanover (Ed.): Directory of visual artists in Hanover. Schlueter, Hannover 1979, p. 51.
  • General artist lexicon . Volume 32, pp. 343f.
  • Heinz Vahlbruch (Ed., Editing): WP Eberhard Eggers and Fischerstrasse 9. Documentation and catalog raisonné. Galerie Kühl, Hanover 1983, ISBN 3-922805-06-X .
  • August F. Teschemacher: WPE Eggers (= Lower Saxony contemporary artists. New series, volume 25). Edition "Libri Artis", Hanover 1985, ISBN 3-887-117-7 .

See also

Web links

Commons : WP Eberhard Eggers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eggers, Wilhelm Paul Eberhard in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated March 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Hugo Thielen : Eggers, (2) WP (Wilhelm Paul) Eberhard. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 146f .; online through google books
  3. ↑ a b c d e Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): WP Eberhard Eggers . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover . Self-published, Hanover 2015, p. 54f.
  4. ^ Hans Kammel: Waldorf Schools. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 653.
  5. ↑ Hans Kammel: Free Waldorf School Maschsee. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 189f.
  6. ↑ a b c d The Lord Mayor (responsible): Printed matter No. 1682/2006 N1: Naming of the place in the Oberricklingen district on the e-government.hannover-stadt.de page from September 14, 2006.
  7. ↑ Eberhard Eggers. In: moma.org. The Museum of Modern Art , accessed June 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Eggers, WP Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggers, Wilhelm Paul Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, painter, sculptor and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2004
Place of death Hanover